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competition is a primary driving force behind organisational change and technical innovation. Firms are divided into three groups … (the C-firms, the A-firms and the S-firms), according to how fare the intensity of competition had changed in recent years …. The propensity to change and adapt is much higher among the firms that have experienced the strongest rise in competition …
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This paper focuses on three related matters. It analyses the process of competition in the software industry, this … being important both in itself and for the light it throws on competition within all industries characterised by low or zero …
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The existing empirical evidence is somewhat inconclusive with respect to a number of the key predictions of the agency model. Although the reach of agency theory is considerably wider, the dominant portion of work has been taken up with examining the nature of the trade-off between risk and...
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This paper concerns the operation of competition in the presence of a high rate of innovation and increasing returns … this investment yields only a normal return. Thus, competition, increasing returns and innovation may co-exist. …. Given free competition there is likely to exist, in this case, a tendency towards what may be called ‘dynamic equilibrium …
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The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms...
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learning organisations stimulate innovation and competence building and it makes an original conceptual contribution of … practical relevance by linking knowledge management to HRM and innovation management. …
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MNCs and regional innovation systems differ widely in their knowledge generation and dissemination processes. We … knowledge transfer process between MNCs and regional innovation systems. For that purpose we develop a conceptual model of the …
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This paper addresses two puzzles related to industrial dynamics and competition. The first of these puzzles is that a … globalization affects competition and distinguish forces that foster concentration and forces that are conducive for market …
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This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
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